Two years after Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers (SVCMC) filed for bankruptcy for the second time, on April 14, 2010, the case has amassed nearly $56 million in legal and professional fees. The biggest payments, through the end of February, are to Grant Thornton, whose restructuring consultants raked in $22 million. The SVCMC case has

When is comes to reading business cards, incipient cataracts and high styled graphics are increasingly divergent in directions. On one card I failed, several times, to read white type on an orange background and thought this one end of the design pomposity scale until, a, small in stature, but evident large in ego, design impresario

This Lee Lorenz cartoon so perfectly expressed the sentiments of RRRWV (Residents for Responsible Restaurants in the West Village) regarding the Starr Restaurant Group’s plan to take over the premises formerly occupied by The Paris Commune at 99 Bank Street, that a member of the group attached it to one of their flyers outside her

On March 28, Charles Lockwood, architectural historian, writer and environmental sustainability consultant died at the age of 63, in his home in Topanga, California. He was known for his book, “Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Row House, 1783-1929,” that both chronicled and furthered the row-house revival that transformed many New York neighborhoods. Lockwood’s love

WE WOULD RATHER BUY PARIS Andromache and I could not find a free bench so we sat down opposite two Chinese girls in the new park on Bleecker opposite Magnolia Bakery. The young ladies were gingerly attempting to eat the caloric globs as I said, “Are you from China?” “We are,” came the answer in